Walpole, Robert

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister

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The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister
Edward Pearce
Manufacturer: Random House UK
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ASIN: 0224071815
Release Date: 2007-02-27

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All politics, of a kind we can recognize, began with Robert Walpole. Edward Pearce brings him vividly to life in this biography of Britain’s first and longest serving Prime Minister.

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Sir Robert Walpole: The King's Minister
J. H. Plumb
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0D2E2

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The difficult-to-find second volume of Plumbs magisterial study of the most important English statesman of the 18th century.

Sir Robert Walpole;: The making of a statesman

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Sir Robert Walpole;: The making of a statesman
J. H Plumb
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007DSCGE

THE FOURTH (4th) FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT GHOST STORIES (4) Four: The Accident; Not on the Passenger List; the Sphinx Without a Secret; When I Was Dead; The Queen of Spades; Pargiton and Harby; The Snow; Carlton's Father; A School Story

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THE FOURTH (4th) FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT GHOST STORIES (4) Four: The Accident; Not on the Passenger List; the Sphinx Without a Secret; When I Was Dead; The Queen of Spades; Pargiton and Harby; The Snow; Carlton's Father; A School Story
Robert (editor) (Ann Bridge; Barry Pain; Oscar Wilde; Vincent O'Sullivan; Alexander Pushkin; Desmond MacCarthy; Hugh Walpole; Eric Ambrose; M. R. James; Saki; William Wilkie Collins) Aickman
Manufacturer: Fontana Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Good collection in a great series.......2006-10-15

Throughout the two decades from 1964 to 1984, Fontana published a remarkable skein of ghost story collections, piloted by R. Aikman and later by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean supernatural authors themselves. Some of the paperbacks in this series, which winds its way up to the "20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" are now collectors' items and worth over a hundred dollars apiece.

For this fourth book in the series, Robert Aickman selected eleven supernatural tales, including Alexander Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" which was also made into an opera--an unusual fate for a ghost story!

These are the tales in the 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories:

"The Accident" by Ann Bridge--Many great ghost stories are set in the Alps and this is one of them. A pair of climbers, brother and sister, come across a set of tracks that begin in an open snowfield, near the place where two other climbers had fallen to their deaths a month earlier. Then the sister begins to receive postcards from one of the dead climbers.

"Not on the Passenger List" by Barry Pain--A young widow takes passage on a ship to England, where she is to remarry. Her late husband appears in her cabin and tries to persuade her to drown herself.

"The Sphinx without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde--Aikman cheated by including this story, which has no ghost. A mysterious young woman is confronted by her fiancé, who breaks off their engagement.

"When I was Dead" by Vincent O'Sullivan--A young man witnesses his own funeral.

"The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin--An 87-year-old Countess dies before revealing her supposed secret for winning at cards. Her ghost appears to the man who frightened her to death, revealing the cards he needed to play in order to win a fortune. Would you trust the ghost of the woman you frightened to death?

"Pargiton and Harby" by Desmond MacCarthy-- Harby meets his old friend, Pargiton who seems to be making amends for an ill-spent life. Pargiton begs Harby to visit him, because he seems to bring out the best in the reformed evil-doer. Harby comes, but so does something else.

"The Snow" by Hugh Walpole--The two Mrs. Ryders, one of them dead, battle over their meek, inoffensive husband.

"Carlton's Father" by Eric Ambrose--I would classify this story as science fiction, since it involves a time warp, disguised as a room in Carlton's house, where no-one ages.

"A School Story" by M.R. James--Two men reminisce over the ghost stories that were told about their public schools. One of them concerns a master with a homicidal past.

"The Wolves of Cernogratz" by Saki--Wolves howl around the castle when one of the Cernogratz family dies.

"Mad Monkton" by William Wilkie Collins--Generations of the reclusive Monkton family suffered from hereditary insanity. Alfred, last of the Monkton line falls in love with the beautiful young Ada, but before he can propose to her, he must travel to Italy to recover the body of his Uncle Stephen, the black sheep of the Monkton family, who was killed in a duel. Everyone thinks Alfred is crazy for trying to recover the body, but an old family prophecy and the ghost of Uncle Stephen urge him onward.

Eighteenth Century Encounters: Essays on Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole

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Eighteenth Century Encounters: Essays on Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole
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Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Imports
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Walpole in Power
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This vivid account of the leader who shaped 18th century English politics and culture focuses on his 20 years in office.

The Case of Opposition Stated, Between the Craftsman and the People

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The Case of Opposition Stated, Between the Craftsman and the People
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English statesman, holding and losing many offices in a time a great

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English statesman, holding and losing many offices in a time a great
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THE ENDLESS ADVENTURE, VOLUME ONE: THE RISE OF ROBERT WALPOLE TO THE HEAD OF AFFAIRS, 1710-1727.

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THE ENDLESS ADVENTURE, VOLUME ONE: THE RISE OF ROBERT WALPOLE TO THE HEAD OF AFFAIRS, 1710-1727.
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